Kenneth Choi is set to play the principal of Spider-Man: Homecoming. Deadline reports that the actor, who also played Jim Morita in Captain America: The First Avengers and Agents of SHIELD, will has joined the cast of the upcoming Sony/Marvel film.

The movie also stars Tom Holland, Marisa Tomei, Robert Downey Jr., Michael Keaton, Zendaya, Michael Barbieri, Laura Harrier and Tony Revolori. It being directed by Jon Watts and is set to release on July 7th, 2017.

Doctor Doom speaks! In an interview with The Daily Beast, Toby Kebbell, who portrayed the villain, talked about the original cut of the 2015 version of Fantastic Four. He says it was way better than the movie that was eventually released.

Kebbell’s said, “I tell you, the honest truth is [JoshTrank] did cut a great film that you’ll never see. That is a shame. A much darker version, and you’ll never see it. There are always frustrations with thesI tent poles. But it generally comes from the script changing, sadly enough. But I’m very proud of my work. I’m also just as heartbroken as the fans are.”

I’m not sure if the tone needed to be darker.

He went on to speak about playing Doom, “I spent so long figuring out an accent that was from the mid-Eastern block, generic enough to be a guy who then lived in America. I figured that out. Unfortunately, I played Doom in three points: Walking down a corridor, killing the doctor and getting into the time machine, and lying on the bench. They were the only times I played Doom. Everything else was some other guy, on some other day… doing some other thing. I was infuriated that he was allowed to limp like that!”

Perhaps you need a refresher. The Fantastic Four reboot bombed commercially and received negative reviews from theatergoers. A sequel was set for a July 2017 release but was taken off the calendar. No one made much of a fuss and there were hopes Marvel would get back control of the franchise and put it on stable ground.

Recently producer Simon Kinberg has been talking about the franchise and said, “It’s a big part of [Fox’s superhero] plan going forward.… I would love to continue making movies with that cast.” Kinberg addressed Fantastic Four’s tone and admitted it was darker than it needed to be. “We want to make another Fantastic Four movie,” Kinberg told Den of Geek. “We’ll try to be truer to the essence of the tone of Fantastic Four [the comic]…which is a brighter, funnier, more optimistic tone. I think we tried to make a darker Fantastic Four movie, which seemed like a radical idea, but we were kind of messing with the DNA of the actual comic instead of trusting the DNA of the comic.”

His thoughts on the movie? “We didn’t make a good movie,” he said, “and the world voted, and I think they probably voted correctly. And you can’t make a good movie every time out — not everybody does. We actually have a pretty good batting average, all things considered. But I think we made many mistakes when we made that movie — mistakes that we learned from and we wouldn’t repeat.”

ABC and Marvel Entertainment have released an interesting tease of what’s to come when Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD returns this fall. As you can see in the above image (check out a larger version in the gallery below), a San Diego trolley has been decked out with one Hell of a teaser image. Could Ghost Rider be making an upcoming appearance?

“Get fired up!” reads the text accompanying the image of the train, “Marvel’s ‎Agents of SHIELD‬ knows how to get to you ‪SDCC‬ in style.”

Of course, a flaming chain doesn’t necessarily mean Ghost Rider as a Hellfire chain was the weapon of choice for the Secret Warriors‘ character J.T. James, aka Hellfire. James made his television debut, played by Axle Whitehead, on the series last year. With the Ghost Rider rights back at Marvel, it’s possible that we could see the motorcycle riding antihero rear his flaming head, however, as Ghost Rider and Hellfire share a bit of a history.

Before Marvel Comics even existed, the western hero known as Ghost Rider made his debut in 1949’s “Tim Holt #11”. By 1967, the Ghost Rider copyright had lapsed and Marvel Comics began publishing their own version of the cowboy hero. Battled evil on horseback, Carter Slade dressed in a phosphorescent white outfit to take on evildoers. Five years later, Marvel Comics introduced the Johnny Blaze version of Ghost Rider, a contemporary supernatural antihero who, after making a deal with the devil, battles evil atop a motorcyle. With the success of the Blaze Ghost Rider, Slade became retroactively known as the Phantom Rider.

In the comics, J.T. James is the grandson of Phantom Rider Carter Slade and, from him, inherited the Hellfire chain.Although no such history has, as of yet, been made a part of Whitehead’s take on James, it’s looking pretty likely that we’re going to learn a whole lot more about James’ history in season four.

The Slade character made an appearance in 2007’s Ghost Rider film, played by Sam Elliot.

20th Century Fox Reportedly Considering Some Sort Of Team-Up With Marvel Studios

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Deadpool was an unexpected hit, but Fantastic Four was a huge flop and X-Men: Apocalypse proved to be a critical and commercial disappointment. It makes sense then that 20th Century Fox is at least considering teaming up with Marvel Studios, especially after they essentially saved Spider-Man for Sony Pictures by giving the wall-crawler a critically acclaimed role in Captain America: Civil War.

Talking on the latest episode of Collider Heroes, Matt Key, a producer on Kevin Smith's Fatman on Batman podcast, had this to say about some interesting rumblings he's been hearing. "I've heard from a few of my sources, my little birds that Fox and Marvel have... kind of talked, but not really, but like there's interest from Fox, like, 'Ooh, y'know, what they did with Sony and Spider-Man is actually pretty cool, like, maybe...' We're years away from that ever possibly happening... but I think that's what it would take... Fox joining hands with Marvel..." Well, that's pretty vague all in all, eh?

I am honestly not surprised. If they did do anything I would say they would probably try to make some sort of deal centering around Fantastic Four. They want F4 to do well but clearly don't want to give up the rights....so I mean the obvious way to do this would be Reed Richards dimensional experiments.

I'm sort of hoping they're only talking F4 right now. Don't get me wrong X-Men has had some major ups and downs, but I think starting all that over right now wouldn't set well with me, and I'll hold my opinions until Deadpool 2 is out, but the first is probably my favorite film this year so far.

Another major shakeup is headed toward Marvel Comics this fall, when 15-year-old Riri Williams assumes the mantle of Iron Man. Acclaimed writer Brian Michael Bendis created and will continue to write the character.

Riri Willams was recently introduced to the Invincible Iron Man series. This genius student attending M.I.T. on scholarship created her own suit of Iron Man armor. Though it is confirmed that she is taking Tony Stark's role as Iron Man, Bendis assures fans that they don't know the ending of Civil War II based on that information.

"More people are going to be upset that they think they know the ending to Civil War II now than anything we just talked about," Bendis said in an interview with Time. "But I can tell you just because we’re hearing what we’re saying doesn’t know you mean how Civil War II ends. We’re not telling you the end, at all."

Civil War II began recently, and will conclude this fall. Riri Williams joins Marvel's increasingly diverse cast of Avengers along with Kamala Khan and Miles Morales.

I am all for adding characters of diversity to various franchises; it makes those world more realistic and, well, colorful places. What I can't stand is when they alter existing characters to be something for the sake of saying "We are diverse, see!!!!", and Marvel has been annoyingly persistent in doing this.

You know why no one (besides A-holes) complained about Rey and Finn in Star Wars? Because they were new characters, with their own personalities. I know this isn't the best example because you cant really alter the original characters like how Marvel is doing it, but my point is Lucasfilm wasn't annoyingly obvious with the fact that they were increasing their diversity like Marvel's desperate attempt to shove PC culture down people's throat.

_______________If you only do what you can do, you will never be better than what you are.

I am all for adding characters of diversity to various franchises; it makes those world more realistic and, well, colorful places. What I can't stand is when they alter existing characters to be something for the sake of saying "We are diverse, see!!!!", and Marvel has been annoyingly persistent in doing this.

You know why no one (besides A-holes) complained about Rey and Finn in Star Wars? Because they were new characters, with their own personalities. I know this isn't the best example because you cant really alter the original characters like how Marvel is doing it, but my point is Lucasfilm wasn't annoyingly obvious with the fact that they were increasing their diversity like Marvel's desperate attempt to shove PC culture down people's throat.

^ALL OF THIS!

Nobody is against diversity. But what they ARE against is when they are shoved down their throats and done so for the sake of diversity. People can accept diversity if you make them new characters. You could, sometimes, expand older characters that are malleable enough to be molded to be different yet keep the same things that made them famous and not to make them radically different.

Also Dr Doom is taking over as Iron Man as well and that story is equally ridiculous to my estimate. Stop having random people take over other characters mantles!

I can't help but wonder if Marvel has either given up on it's comics or if they have been so spoiled by their movies division that they think that they can get away with doing this as long as the movies are being made.

Let them speculate. I honestly doubt they'd tell RDJ to step aside so some unknown girl can be thrown into a role they're not ready for. Disneys not dumb.

The only way that can happen is if it's at the end of the MCU where it's his secret/long lost biological daughter (via his playboy days before he became Iron Man) and he passes the mantle down because of his declining mental health.